Here is my reasoning with weed being legal. I say the system we have now, should stay the way we have it now. Before you call me a "dealer", I am in no way one. I'm too well off to be one. I take a look at both sides, since I look at things at both sides instead of just inside the box. ( It's the gange talking).
The arguments of it being legal:
Easy Access
Cheap
Be Safe from the Law
Med. Patients.
Cleaning Up the Streets.
The Illegal Side of it:
Being ripped off.
Death drug Sells.
War against Drugs costing tax payers money.
Seriously, Fuck the bullshit. You guys keeping making it easy for these pork barrel fucking politics to make money. Nobody has ever thought that it would hurt our economy in any way if we make it legal. Our government is laughing slowly inside while we make a road for them to make their pockets fatter. I'm glad that we have reached a goal where we can sell "Medical Marijuana" at a safe location to patients that need it medically. For the rest of the people that just smoke it traditionally... FUCK YOU. Dealers use their money to stimulate the economy, regardless if they spend their money lavishly or not. What "dealers" do is spend money. The money is usually spent to fit their life styles and when money is spent it's driving the economy. Please school me on how making it legal would stimulate our economy. In my mind is the average Pot head has an average ass job saves every dime he can spends all his money on pot. Cool spends money on pot and saves the rest. Store owners save money that's what they do. Maximize profits and savings. NM... i'm just being to high and this is going no where. LEGALIZE POT!
Wait, so you're saying we should KEEP arresting nearly a million people every year for simple possession because drug dealers spend money?
Fuck that.
Let me explain to you how legalizing cannabis would stimulate the economy.
Ever heard of HEMP? Hemp comes from the cannabis plant. Currently, here in the US we can't grow hemp because the gov't tells us it's a drug (even though it's not). Instead, we import hemp from other places like Canada when we could be producing our own. Do you know how many products can be made from hemp? HUNDREDS, literally. Plastic, fuel, food items, textiles, just to name a few. Currently petroleum is our main source of these things (besides food), and we all know that petroleum is NOT sustainable, petroleum products are nonbiodegradable, and the byproducts of petrochemical manufacturing are highly toxic and frequently contaminate our soil and ground water.
The hemp industry alone could be huge in the US.
Now, how to make money from "marijuana". Well, take a look at CA and how they've recently started taxing dispensaries that sell medical cannabis. Imagine if every city in the US had these dispensaries and they were all generating tax revenue for their localities! Now also imagine that those dispensaries employed lots of workers! That's good for the economy. Then think of all the cannabis farms we'd need in order to keep up with the demand! How's about that for injecting some life back into agribusiness in the US!
The way it stands now, most of the profits from cannabis sales aren't doing our economy any good. Not to mention the BILLIONS of dollars the US spends every year trying to "eradicate" cannabis and its users.
